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Emails: X has begun work on an account handle marketplace for purchasing handles left unused, requesting a flat fee of $50K from potential buyers in some cases — Rumored to be in the works for the past year, the initiative appears to have begun rolling out recently, with email solicitations being sent to potential buyers.
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| New York Times: |
Sources: GM spent an average of $588M a quarter on Cruise in the past year, up 42% YoY, and staff intervened to assist Cruise's vehicles every 2.5 to five miles — Cruise has hired a law firm to investigate how it responded to regulators, as its cars sit idle and questions grow about its C.E.O.'s expansion plans.
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| Andrew Hayward / Decrypt: |
NFT marketplace Magic Eden and Yuga Labs plan to launch an Ethereum platform that will be “contractually obligated” to honor creator royalties on NFT sales — Magic Eden's new Ethereum NFT marketplace will be “contractually obligated” to pay royalties. What does that mean for traders?
More: Yuga Labs, CoinGape, Bitcoin Insider, CoinStats, Cryptopolitan, and The Block
| Andrew Hayward / Decrypt: |
OpenSea lays off ~50% of staff and is moving to “OpenSea 2.0”; after laying off 20% of its workforce in July 2022, the NFT marketplace said 230 staff remained — A company representative told Decrypt that approximately 50% of employees were impacted across the company.
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Forums: r/Buttcoin and r/Superstonk
| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
How chip companies are experimenting with new materials, including synthetic diamonds and ultrapure glass, to improve performance and combat heat in microchips — To beat the heat that our devices throw off, engineers are experimenting with synthetic diamonds, ultrapure glass and other obscure materials| Gabor Cselle / Gabor Cselle on Medium: |
The CEO of Pebble, formerly T2, on why the social network failed: not prioritizing building an app, Threads' launch, not enough interesting content, and more — Tl;dr We tried to build a Twitter alternative from scratch, starting a few weeks after Elon Musk took over Twitter and laid off half the company.
More: Android Headlines and Washington Times
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Discord says links to files uploaded to its servers will expire after 24 hours to reduce the amount of malware distributed using its CDN, starting later in 2023 — Discord will switch to temporary file links for all users by the end of the year to block attackers from using its CDN … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Byju's files much-delayed financial results: $270.9M operating loss and revenue of $429.18M for FY ending March 2022, missing revenue projections of $1.25B — Indian edtech giant Byju's said on Saturday that revenue of its core business, its largest, in the financial year ending March 2022 stood …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
A security researcher says that a Flipper Zero device can carry out DoS attacks on iPhones running iOS 17 by continuously sending Bluetooth pairing requests — No cure yet for a popular iPhone attack, except for turning off Bluetooth. — One morning two weeks ago, security researcher Jeroen van der Ham …
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Forums: Hacker News and r/technews
| NBC News: |
On Instagram, journalists and creators inside Gaza see a surge in followers as they document the Israel-Hamas war, even as Meta has broadly moved away from news — One journalist has added more than 12 million followers. The work highlights some of the challenges and dangers of covering the conflict.
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| TechCrunch: |
Hands-on with Google's real-time scanning in Play Protect for sideloaded apps: it didn't restrict five predatory loan apps and two fake apps from installing — Here's our hands-on review of the new Android security feature — Android's in-built security engine Google Play Protect …
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| Alex Cranz / The Verge: |
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